Sentences with phrase «labour policies for»

With this in mind there are some decidedly odd features of Labour policy for England.

Before 2010 the Labour policy for academies focused solely on schools in areas with a track record of under - performance.

Not exact matches

There are no easy fixes for Canada's labour problems, with think - tanks and policy wonks suggesting everything from a reduction in EI to a Youth Employment Guarantee.

She observes that since the provinces control most of the social programs that are responsible for settling and integrating immigrants into Canadian society, such as education, health care, welfare, and share labour - market training with the feds, it only makes sense that they take a bigger role in implementing immigration policy.

Without embedding intergenerational equity into Canada's labour market policy we will be headed for long - period of reduced economic growth, stagnation, or even decline.

Marc Lee, economist at the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, a progressive Vancouver think tank, says that government action on the reforms suggested by labour will be hampered by ideological objections to running deficits in bad times.

Andrew Jackson, director of social and economic policy for the Canadian Labour Congress, agrees with Elizabeth Kelliher that the Canadian government should be making massive new investments in social housing, as well as many other areas of infrastructure.

Compared with previous episodes of booming commodity prices, a floating currency, a sound but flexible medium - term framework for monetary policy and a flexible labour market mean we are doing much better this time than in the mid 1970s or early 1950s.

For all those complexities, though, I still believe that we will cope best with these shocks by sticking with a flexible inflation target, a floating currency and pro-flexibility supply - side policies in labour and product markets.

The Canada and Quebec delegation included representatives from Common Frontiers, the Council of Canadians, Réseau Québécois sur l'intégration continentale (RQIC), the Canadian Labour Congress, Unifor, the Canadian Union of Public and General Employees (CUPE) National, the United Steelworkers, Public Service Alliance of Canada, BC Teachers Federation, Fonds de solidarité (FTQ), Confédération des syndicats nationaux (CSN), Centro international de solidarité ouvrière (CiSO), the National Farmers Union, and the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, many of which are member organizations of the TJN.

The signatories of this letter warn against the potential for trade agreements like NAFTA to restrict Canada's ability to enforce its own environmental regulations, maintain labour standards, and keep jobs and pollution from leaking to other states with weaker policies.

I do think that we face some skills shortages down the road which create lots of opportunities for active labour market policy to be more effective.

He praised the policy, but admitted that Labour's proposals to prioritise new - builds for first - time buyers living in area for three years was «difficult», as it could potentially penalise someone looking to move up the social ladder by purchasing a property in a new area.

Promoting such policies for the Labour machine was Momentum, a grassroots campaigning network which arose from the 2015 general election.

David Lammy's report for the Labour Party policy review This report for the Labour's Party's policy review, written by David Lammy MP, presses the agenda forward on paternity leave, calling for adequate pay levels and independent leave rights, paid antenatal appointments and part time leave and pay.

Thank you for writing to me, on behalf of the Baby Feeding Law Group, about the Labour Party's policy on infant and young child feeding.

We excluded women who required oxytocin for induction of labour after the 2:1 matching with our study group, because we learned during the study that the policy with respect to the use of oxytocin for induction of labour was outside the scope of practice for midwives and family physicians in some hospitals.

Hiring a house in order to be in the catchment for DOMINO homebirth, asking for a new health care professional in labour, changing hospitals, challenging policy — women are becoming more proactive in their approach of navigating the system in order to ensure that they get the most out of their maternity care and have a healthy positive birth experience.

Enact paid family leave and workplace breastfeeding policies, building on the International Labour Organization's maternity protection guidelines as a minimum requirement, including provisions for the informal sector.

In 1994 - 5, whilst as Shadow Employment Secretary of State she formulated the policy for the National Minimum Wage, devising and campaigning for Labour's commitment to establish a Low Pay Commission.

«I'm quietly confident, in a non-complacent way, that the people who are flirting with the Greens, a large number of them will end up voting Labour - for positive reasons, because we've got radical policies on the environment, we've got very good policies on addressing inequality, the housing crisis, the NHS.

So they're grateful for the policy, but they'd really rather it was Labour introducing it instead.

Labour has slavishly followed Tory policies for 12 years, and Cameron has modelled himself and his politics on Tony Blair.

In fact Stephen Beer claimed Labour needed to respond to the tough decisions it faced on the economy, outline an economic plan for the future rather than a retrospective attack on Coalition policy and most importantly close the economic credibility gap that was first conceived and then grew during Labour's last years in office.

«One thing about McDonnell and his tribe is that they're intellectually curious,» says Allen Simpson, public policy director at Barclays and chair of Labour In The City, who stood as Labour's candidate for Maidstone and the Weald in the general election.

And the longer the government carries on with these failing policies, the bigger the challenge will be for the next Labour government.

When Kathy, my wife, went into the labour ward (December 5, 2003) I sat with her reading Julian Le Grand's book on motivation and public policy, working out which passages I could use for an Oxford admissions interview.

I spoke to a contact who admitted that he and one other guy, also now working for the government, came up with the idea of the campaign over a drink while they were reading a story about Labour's policy in the Guardian.

Guido wrote: «Red Len McCluskey is driving a secret policy aiming to build up a # 30million war chest to fund Unite's «struggle for Labour's soul».

The Nigeria Labour Congress National Executive Council is also meeting tomorrow and we have invitation to also attend the meeting and that is why today we have taken our position and there is no doubt that we are also going to fight for that reversal and we are not stopping on just reversal to N86.50 k, we are also going to further our struggle against the deregulation policy, against the privatization policy and the need for a political alternative and that is where we are going.

He said the availability of ready markets in the face of huge population, constant electricity, cheap labour, serene environment and other enormous opportunities for businesses to thrive abound in Lagos Island CBD, pointing out that the return of corporate organizations will indeed accelerate the vivid realization of government policy.

«In the last couple of weeks, Labour has set out policies that offer a clear and credible choice for the country.

For instance, they struck a bargain with the Liberal Party (the so - called «Lib - Lab Pact») in a desperate bid to cling to power in 1977, by the terms of which Labour agreed to take on board certain policy proposals favoured by the Liberals, including electoral reform.

In a recent blog post for (the appropriately titled) Conservative Home, the Labour party's Policy Co-Ordinator, Jon Cruddas MP (also a contributor to The Labour Tradition), reflects on Scruton's new book, How to be a Conservative: he describes his Conservatism as a love of home.

In his letter, Duncan Smith attacked Labour for their «out - of - control» spending on welfare and their opposition to government policies like the reform of sickness benefit and work experience programmes for the young and unemployed.

Podemos, minus the Marxist language and with its most radical policies toned down for a centre - left Labour Party, may actually be a useful model for Labour.

Labour's official policy is now to stay in the single market and customs union for a transition period - a position backed by trade unions, business bodies and all opposition parties apart from the DUP.

But while one is raising money for charity, the other is calling out brands like Marks and Spencer and John Lewis for their pay policies — brands that the public love significantly more than they do Labour.

As an immediate response to Labour's losing a considerable number of those middle - class voters, Tony Blair and his close aides, such as Peter Mandelson and David Miliband attacked Ed Miliband for ditching their policy of aspiration.

The labour market policies that the center - right parties pro-posed in the 2006 election campaign and implemented in 2006 — 2010 were designed to cut benefits for the long - term unemployed while cutting taxes on incomes from paid employment.

As we reach the second half of this coalition government's term in power, Umunna has a golden opportunity to build substantial business policies for Labour.

In the UK, the tendency has been for Labour to shift from movement politics to consumer politics - a focus group of eight people sipping wine in Kettering having more weight than policies developed within the party and decided by conference.

However, when these policies are associated with Labour, there is a notable drop in support, with the immediate reaction being «how will they pay for it all?»

Most social hardship is caused by their misguided neoliberal economic policies, but migrants represent convenient scapegoats for low - paid labour and struggling public services.

The coalition government is unwaveringly refusing to reverse a combination of the housing and climate change policies formulated by Ed Miliband as secretary of state for energy and climate change in Gordon Brown's last Labour government.

By making a deliberate play for Labour's policy areas, Osborne is taking another tactic from the Blair playbook.

The shadow home secretary also pledged to properly centre the right to family life in Labour's immigration policy, saying her party «don't want to break up families from the EU in the way we currently do for non-EU families.»

It would be good for the future of progress in the UK, for Labour and the lib dems to discuss what they have in common with each other, and develop policy together.

If the forecasters and betting markets are right in their central forecasts then Con + LD+DUP combined will be short of a majority and so a Labour led government should form if they can secure the support of the SNP and probably others, including the Liberal Democrats, will be needed too: a potentially messy and unstable situation but also one where there is sufficient similarity in ideological perspective for policy agreement on plenty of issues.

Jamie Reed Labour MP for Copeland The pick of online comments from TotalPolitics.com Commenting on Iain Wright MP's blog praising Ed Miliband's call for greater «patriotism» in UK business policy, Ralph Baldwin was dismissive of the Labour leader's intervention.